Etsy Photography Tips
Heidi Adnum gives some fantastic photography pointers in her two part series on Etsy. Learn to use backgrounds, props, and scale in part 2, and color, light, and reflection in part 1.
Photography & Video
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
Interactive video mobile
A collaborative video mobile sculpture by Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs (consisting of) a large-scale, hanging mobile of projected video, playing in multiple screens. Viewers can interact via two live video feeds, which intermingle with videos captured from the natural and urban body of central Ohio. All are mixed into a dynamic and constantly changing […]
How-To: Build a star-tracker for your camera
The best stellar photography requires long exposure times to capture the dimmer stars. The problem with long exposures of the night sky, of course, is that it moves. Or rather, it appears to move. So if you don’t have some way of keeping your camera pointed at the same location over the course of the exposure, you get “trailing.” Eric Chesak built this impressive star-tracking camera mount bracket and won a Design News contest back in March with it.
How-To: Create Beautiful Baby Photos
By Susannah Bothe Capturing either fast-moving or often sleeping babies with our cameras can be a challenge. As a photographer specializing in all forms of family portraiture, I share some useful tips below on how to photograph your precious little ones. Topics discussed in this how-to include the following: set-up, lighting, composition, camera settings and […]
Homages to Escher’s “Drawing Hands”
Uppermost, what I’m pretty sure is a rendering of a virtual Lego model called Brick by Brick, by graphic designer Ian Leino. Immediately above, MC MECHANIC, by photographer Shane Willis.
Stéphane Halleux’s amazing Mr. Hublot
Stéphane Halleux is one of my favorite artists. We’ve covered his whimsical, characterful, other-worldly sculptures here before. I’ve been excited to be following his recent adventures in turning his amazing characters into a movie. Here’s the latest video test he sent me. Even with this short piece, you can already see how lyrical, funny, charming, […]
Skateboard Paper Cut Animation
Tilles Singer made this skateboard animation with “a ton of digital photos, a ton of real life magazines, an hour of recording music.” Skaters do tricks off of books and papercraft landscapes. [via @fi5e]
